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In this lecture we're gonna be learning about how to draw the male torso.

So let's go ahead and begin.

It's already kind of roughed out the shoulders and the collarbone in the chest of a male figure just

because we've drawn it so many times I didn't want to waste too much of your time.

So go ahead and start by kind of detailing this out.

So you just want to draw.

Basically what we've learned to draw up to this point minus the head.

I'm going to leave the head out because it doesn't really have to do with what we're learning how to

draw

it's a little bit off center.

Let me move then.

All right great.

So we're going to move on down to the bottom part of the torso.

So everything from the crotch up.

So what we want to start with is we want to start by marking out the rib cage so the rib cage is just

going to be basically drawn as sort of an oval.

Kind of an egg shape.

So it's a little bit taller or a little bit skinnier at the top.

And then it gets wider down towards the bottom and it's going to start right here at the sternum.

And it's just gonna come down like this

just like that.

So I'm just gonna draw it lightly for now.

So there is a rib cage.

So from here we can start basing a lot of other things off of this.

So for example we're going to have these muscles on the back.

So these actually come from the backside of the back and we're and learned how to draw that here in

a second.

But all you need to know is that there's two muscles that come out here from the back like that

so you would see a little bit of them.

Obviously if the arms are coming down here a lot of that would be covered up but it's just kind of two

lines that slightly follow the same curvature as the sides of the pecs.

So just like that next we can just use the rib cage as a guide for this part of the body.

So it just comes down like this.

And then I like to think of these muscles right here kind of like a rectangle shape.

So they kind of protrude off a little bit.

Then they come down like this.

Make sure that they're both on the same level

that I'm to go ahead and draw kind of a curved line in here so you can see that it kind of just makes

a boxy sort of shape and that's what we'll use as a base then that will continue down into the crotch.

I'm just going to angle two lines going down like this

just like that.

And we can kind of smooth these out.

Then it had to be so rigid and have sharp corners or anything like that.

And we can kind of round this out a little bit as well.

All right great.

Next is going to be the six pack muscles or sometimes it's an eight pack or even a ten pack.

So let me show you how this works.

So on the rib cage you have two sides to it.

So there's a side over here on the side over here.

If you've seen the skeleton you probably know that there's kind of this hollow cavity in the rib cage.

So what we want to do is we want to draw that in because this is basically going to be where the six

pack sit.

Now a distinction between the male and female body is that the male the this cavity right here these

two lines they're angled more upward so it's kind of makes more of a pointy shape where on the female

it's gonna be angled a little bit softer.

So just remember on males it's a little bit point you're a little bit more angled and on females it's

a little less angled so you'll see that when we draw the female torso

rights we can just sketch that in roughly.

And you basically want this to go on most all the way up to the top or the pecs are but not all the

way.

So on a little bit of space up here because that's where your tenth pack would be.

If you're drawing somebody of ten pack.

All right.

So then from there we go ahead and we continue this down into this crotch area.

We move a little bit of space in between there and there

right.

And so are eight pack is going to fit within there and go ahead and divide it in half just by drawing

a line down the middle.

The belly button is going to tend to be right about where the bottom of the rib cage is somewhere around

there so go and just kind of drawn a dark sort of line that kind of starts out wider and then fades

often gets thinner up towards the top.

And then we can go ahead start dividing this up.

I like to start it off by dividing it up into just line.

So I'll put a line there I'll divide this about in half and I'll also divide this down here.

All right.

So there's a pack one two three four five six seven eight.

And then we can go ahead just kind of round those out a little bit just to give them a little bit more

of a realistic look

six packs can have kind of some different shapes to them so like this line right here for example it

might kind of angle up like that a little bit more.

Same with these ones.

So it's really kind of up to you.

I definitely recommend that if you're drawing character and you're showing their six pack you'd probably

want to look at some reference and decide what kind of six pack you want them to have.

None of this character has a 10 pack your 10 pack is gonna be up here so we can kind of split this in

half right there

and that's going to be your tent to ten pack

just go ahead and kind of dark and all this detail and we can kind of smooth these lines into each other

so I'm going to kind of angle that out a little bit more just add some more definition to the muscles

and that's going to angled down like this into the crotch

and your legs we go into kind of these sockets so you can almost imagine if it was a Barbie doll.

Those are kind of the sockets for the legs

and then I'd like to kind of just sketch in some of those muscle fibers just so I can keep myself refreshed

on what the surface of these muscles look like and how they stretch and contract is having an idea of

what direction these muscles are kind of moving in.

It will help you understand in which ways that they can stretch

perfect.

So there is a front view of the male torso.

Now let's just really quick let's just kind of draw sort of this area right here but let's show somebody

stretching out so their arm is gonna be kind of reaching out from their body.

So I'm gonna go ahead just start by drawing the pack so we know that the pack is going to stretch out

all right.

So those are pack so that line right there is just being stretched out or something like that and then

we get the shoulder on top of that.

All nice and stretched out

and what I want to show is I want to show all of this down here.

I want to show that getting stretched out so what we have is we have the rib cage.

We go and draw that rib cage off to go kind of to the top of the pack

now and draw all that I'll just draw about half of the

suddenly that there a shoulder.

Maybe I'll make that shoulder just a little bit smaller.

I might be a little bit too large and that's going to run into the bicep we haven't really talked too

much about that.

Yeah but it just basically get the biceps sort of muscle going right there in the stretch now arm.

And so what happens is you have all this muscle right here that wrap around the ribs and that's going

to get stretched out a little bit.

So it's gonna kind of stretch up here and to the armpit like that

and if you're kind of getting lost let me just kind of sketch in the shoulder muscle right here in the

neck

and the head so you kind of see what's going on a little bit better

so that's kind of where we're at with the body.

And so then we also get this muscle right underneath here in the armpit.

So it's kind of the opposite of the shoulder muscle it's right underneath here in the armpit.

And if it's really strong then they're gonna have a very prominent muscle like that underneath there

but it's gonna be in front of this back muscle there.

So then we can go ahead and draw this back muscle out.

So right there it's just kind of hanging down.

In this case it's going to get stretched out a little bit more so we can kind of extend that out like

that.

We can see how all of this just gets stretched out.

Another thing that will happen is that these muscles right here will become more prominent so you'll

actually see kind of these lines kind of forming the definition right here we can even kind of add some

profile to that.

But you'll see a little bit more definition in that muscle right here because it's the skin is being

stretched across it and we can go ahead and just kind of draw in the direction of the muscle just so

you keep that understanding of how it stretches the other pack.

Stretch this stretch.

Now are there

like that.

I'm just trying to really hit home the idea that anytime a muscle moves it's either in a neutral pose

or right here all these are in a neutral pose.

And so when you move either your muscle is going to stretch.

So like here it stretches or in some cases it's going to contract.

So meaning that it's just going to pull in and become smaller.

So when you're moving poses around you want to kind of keep that in mind or like when you're drawing

from reference you want to keep that in mind that the muscles are either contracting stretching or they're

in there neutral pose.

All right let's go ahead and let's talk about how to draw the back.

So first what I like to start off with is let's start off with the neck

some like that and then we can go ahead and kind of sketch in the shoulder muscles the back muscles

kind of I guess you could say sketching those shoulder muscles.

So it's very much like just drawing it from the front when you're starting now.

All right.

So the neck leads into these shoulder muscles that

great.

Next what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna draw this muscle right here so there's a

muscle that kind of stretches across the back like this.

And it starts kind of around the shoulders just like that and then I want to go ahead and draw a line

come straight down from middle of the neck because these muscles all the muscles on the back kind of

get split in half with sort of a dip or sort of a a channel you could say so if you're looking at this

if you were to take this and turn it like that and you looked at it it's kind of going like this right.

That's what that line basically is representing.

And that goes basically all the way down to the butt crack.

Next let's go ahead and make these shoulders just a little bit larger.

And then we get this big large muscle.

So this muscle back here right here this muscle is what we're about to draw but we're gonna draw it

from the back.

So it's basically going to start like this and just so you know the back is a little bit more complicated

in this.

There's a lot more definition to these muscles but I'm trying to simplify it for you because when it

comes to character design you don't necessarily need to know all this.

You just need to have a decent understanding of what the shapes and forms look like.

So they can draw them accurately but you don't need to know every single muscle in there that could

come handy later but for now we're just going to focus on simplifying these.

All right.

So this big back muscles kind of like a shield you could say.

So it's just kind of shaped like this.

You can see that it has that round sort of curved shape like we get right here except we've seen it

from the back now.

So you're kind of seeing how that is forming from the back.

And that just runs down and connects like this kind of makes it smooth S curve a very light S curve.

Right.

And this could even actually run down into here if you really wanted it to.

And then inside here you have your rib cage.

And we always want to use a rib cage as a guide to build all of our muscle structures off.

So just sketch that in and based off of this rib cage we can go ahead and add

this muscle right there and then we can add this boxy shape so we can see this from the back.

Now

what actually happens with this story here is this actually runs into the buttocks on the back.

So you kind of get the butt back here right.

Which then would run it to the legs

and that waist could probably be a little bit smaller but that's okay.

People have different proportions but ideally if you're let's say drawing a superhero body this way

straight here should be just a little bit thinner.

And basically these two muscles right here run up into the back of the head like this.

So if I were to draw the head

there's kind of the back of a skull

that heads a little bit too large.

You can see how those two large muscles run right up into the back of the head.

You can go ahead and kind of draw in the fibers for this muscle.

All right great.

So there we go.

And just the same if this were stretching now all this is going to get stretch like if we drew the shoulder

like this and it went into a neck

split right down the middle and we draw this big guy right here as the arm is reaching up

what's going to happen is it's gonna go right up like that just get stretched out

so it's just like any other muscle it stretches and that's what it looks like when you get stretched

out.

Right.

Yeah.

So there you go.

That's how you draw the male torso.

If you have any questions about this go ahead and post them to the Q and A section of the course.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.